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The Bovary quest for something better than she has is brought to light at the trial of Gustave Flaubert, author of the realistically treated novel that brought about his arrest.

Author John Nicholson and director Kirstie Davis’ comic reworking of Gustave Flaubert’s novel of romanticism and middle-class morals is overstretched but cheerfully daft ...

Book of a lifetime: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert From The Independent archive: Russell Kane has spasms of erotic delight as he recalls the forbidden ‘first great modern novel’ – an ...

Gustave Flaubert’s classic, “Sentimental Education,” tracks the amorous adventures of an ambitious young man in a fraught time surprisingly like our own.

Nicholson writes a deliciously entertaining adaptation of the novel, while Marieke Audsley has it jump off the page of a storybook.

Absurdist take on the 19th-century novel makes a wonderful alternative Christmas show In this Christmas twist on Gustave Flaubert’s classic, tragic heroine Emma Bovary’s existential longing ...

If you love good books as much as you love good food, a trip through Normandy can feel like a treasure hunt, with surprises – literary and gastronomic – waiting around every corner.

11.30 pm: “I have been teaching Madame Bovary to university students for years. A line in it—“The window, in the provinces, replaces theatres and promenading”—rings very true for me as I ...